The Wind of Change [electronic resource] : Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization /
Butler, L.editor.
Stockwell, S.editor.
Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; Sarah Stockwell & L. J. Butler -- 1. Macmillan, Verwoerd, and the 1960 'Wind of Change' Speech; Saul Dubow -- 2. Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: the Wind of Change and the British World; Stuart Ward -- 3. 'White Man in a Wood Pile': Race and the limits of Macmillan's great 'Wind of Change' in Africa; J.E. Lewis -- 4. The Wind of Change as Generational Drama; Simon Ball -- 5. Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January-February 1960; Nicholas Owen -- 6. 'Words of Change: the rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market, and Cold War, 1961-3'; Richard Toye -- 7. A path not taken? British perspectives on French colonial violence after 1945; Martin Thomas -- 8. The Winds of Change and the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French decolonising Endgame; Martin Shipway -- 9. The US and Decolonisation in Central Africa: 1957-1964; John Kent -- 10. Resistance to 'Winds of Change': The emergence of the 'unholy alliance' between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa 1964-1965; Sue Onslow -- 11. The wind that failed to blow: British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf; Simon C. Smith -- 12. Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan's Africa in the 'long view' of decolonisation; Stephen Howe.
Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field.
Macmillan, Harold, 1894-1986.
Africa—History.
Great Britain—History.
History, Modern.
World politics.
Imperialism.
African History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Modern History.
Political History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.